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Good job on the colorization of these historical photos. My only criticism is that the text descriptions under the photos don't always fit the screen, so a lot of the text descriptions were cut-off.
This video is AI Generated content so don't bother trying to comment to fix anything- some of the photos are at least real but the info is often mismatched chatgpt search info with lots of errors. This channel is only concerned with cranking out videos fast and easy with little care for quality.
Not twins, two separate girls from different countries. 1 is french 1 is German. Its from after the war ended and they were homeless. Showing beautiful people thrown to the gutters cus of war.
I inherited a five generation collection of the photographic works of my family dating back to the 1850's. I have attempted to hand tint a handful of the many tens of thousands of photos that I have. Until now I have always thought hand tinting was a complete waste of time and accomplished very little esthetically. The first photographer in my family went to France to study under the inventor of the art and then came back circa 1852 to set up a shop in Massachusetts. He was commissioned an officer in the volunteers and took hundreds of battlefield photos that are as yet unpublished. I had always intended to simply leave them in my will to the Smithsonian assuming they would have them. After viewing this video I'm now contemplating having this done with a few hundred of those and turning them into a book though many are too graphic for colorization. Sherman was right, war is hell. The scenes are all hellish in nature, the stuff nightmares are made of. But I have many many historic photos taken before and since that I might do something like this with. I have never been so impressed by an attempts at colorizing old black and white photos. This is by far the best example of the art I have ever witnessed. I have no idea by what processes this was accomplished but I would say this borders on miraculous in quality. Many of these look like they were taken yesterday with the most advanced digital cameras. I have seen the originals of several of these and blown away by the degree to which images have been cleaned up, clarified and how authentic the colors look. Before this everything I have ever seen colorized looked like they were tinted with water colors done by amateurs. I have photos as mentioned above taken on battlefields including action and aftermath. Mostly aftermath. I have street scenes and celebrities. My grandfather who was an amateur photographer took hundreds of WWI photos. I have a series of photos documenting the construction of the Cape Cod Canal and the three bridges over it. I have the only photos of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and Herman Melville taken sitting together at dinner at my great, great, great grandmother's boarding house in New Bedford Mass in the 1880's. Clemens came to visit periodically and Melville frequently as they both liked her cooking, especially Melville won once told her that she comes back to New Bedford just for her cooking but prefers New York for everything else. I have photos of Samuel Clemens in drag taken at my great, great, great grandfather's studio. Imagine him wearing a pinafore holding a parasol in one hand and cigar in the other. He was drunk at the time and later asked my great, great, great grandfather to destroy the photos but instead they were preserved. I have photos of the 1918 pandemic taken by my grandmother who was a nurse and helped take care of hundreds of patients in a tent city of the infected that September. There's of a sign reminding people to wear their masks, wash their hands frequently and to social distance. Her diary expressed her frustrations at not being able to convince people of the need to so those things hence all the patients. Another photo shows the dead bodies wrapped in shrouds stacked in the back of wagons like cordwood and yet another photo of work men unloading them into a mass grave. They didn't have modern morgues like today. Some communities burned the bodies but hers thought doing so would cause the smoke to carry the disease spreading it more. I have photographs of celebrities that went to high school with my Dad in Massachusetts before they were famous. All of the above are unpublished and all in B&W. I just wish I could afford to have this done with all of them. It would bring the past back to light in a way that no words can.
Thanks for your generous words. Your words carry emotions and value. Also, you should publish them even in black and white. People like me would love to colorize them besides the fact that original black and white photos are still worthy.
i hope some day your photos of the 1918 pandemic are posted along with diary entries. Those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it. While it would you put you in the middle of the controversy, or might, or might draw unwanted attention, on the other hand its message would be very powerful and help people understand our changing world. Thank you for sharing your comments and history.
IMO, a photo book along the lines of any of those topics would be very interesting, whether black and white or colourised. The Civil War was among the first to be documented with photographs. More study of the Spanish flu and it's aftermath could benefit us all. Even though the idea of a book of battlefield photos, or row upon row of Spanish flu patients might seem sobering, there was a reason why those pictures were taken. To inform and warn, and educate others. 'The Stuff Nightmares Are Made Of, ' would be an excellent title for such a book.
@@saturnchildwinterborn7897 I find the people looking at the halcyon days of their youth, or the past, don't really understand what day to day life was about. Pictures of 'the bottom of the barrel' of food would be a good one. Life without modern time saving devices. Life without modern medicine. I would have been dead years ago without it. And then there is the whole civil rights movement and the echoes of the past that we are still dealing with. I like the new series which are more historically accurate like 'hell on wheels' about building the transcontinental railroad. I have worked with track hammers and driving stakes at a railroad museum. How people did it for hours on end and the wear and tear on the body. Or black lung disease from being a miner. The series 'Chernobyl' was another one showing the tragedy and cost and how the miners who went in to stop the core from burning its way down all died from radiation poisoning as well as others.... Mostly the good old days - weren't. Times were simpler but far from better.
The photo of Charles Dickens was by far the best quality in the whole lot. Whoever took it had a very clean camera and clean film. Correct focus and correct exposure. Most digital cameras today couldn’t take a photo that sharp.
I used to think photos shouldn't be colorized, but it certainly makes an impact on how these grey lifeless black & white photos change with color! Suddenly, they look like everyday people. Although, too many uniforms on very young men!
Edward Sherriff Curtis (February 19, 1868 - October 19, 1952) was an American photographer and ethnologist whose work focused on the American West and on Native American people] Sometimes referred to as the "Shadow Catcher", Curtis traveled the United States to document and record the dwindling ways of life of various native tribes through photographs and audio recordings. Wiki
Fantastic! You make History come Alive like never before! Everyone needs to see this, to recognize our common humanity, to grow in empathy and understanding, learning to love each other as the Divine intended.
@@lukestuningshop8467 he really used AI generated photos of "attractive women in times of Civil War" because "normal" looking people wouldn't generate clicks as much. Kind of disrespectful to our ancestors who fought during that time
Really excellent colorizations. Thank you. The merkins were a bit of a hoot. Godfrey Weitzel was born in Germany, a brilliant student, and perhaps the youngest enrollee in West Point Military Academy at the age of 14 (having lied about his age). A superior engineer, when promoted, he took charge of an all-black Army Corps, putting him on the death list of the Southern Government.
The swallow-tail flag behind Custer has 35 stars in the canton. The 35th was added when a star for West Virginia was added July 4, 1863 (West Virginia seceded from Virginia).
Thats the story and they are sticking to it.. Lincoln needed electoral college votes, so forget the U.S. constitution- so Union troops backed a group claiming they where rightfull gov of Virginia allowing the formation of the new state of West Va. A powder mine/ factory in the new West Virginia would employee 2200 men (mostly soldiers) and supply 1/3 of the gun powder for the confederate army/navy for the next two years..No new West Virginians --white/back/free/poor/rich/male/female pointed out to the Feds what was being producted-shipped under tell noses....Seeing they might need more votes Nevada became a state despite not having enfu population to qualify as a state --its still something like 90+% federal land..
If your interests are in the Civil War and battlefields William Frasanito did several books, Gettysburg, Antietam then the latter campaigns where he determined where old battlefield photos were taken, what was visible and a modern, 1970s1980s, photo from the same camera position.
New Sub. As an amateur Historian, I really Appreciate the comparison of Original Photography with Colorized Interpretations. That lends greater appreciation of craft and historical significance. Thank You!✔️👍🏽🇺🇸💙
Great collection of colorized history photos. It would be good if you could run some public domain music in the background such as period songs that were being played and sung in both North and South at the time.
The photos are well chosen, and the colorization is exceptional. The portrait of Edward Sheriff Curtis at 1:30 makes it personal: He strongly resembles my son-in-law, who happens to be a Civil War reenactor.
@@JesusMagicPanties Edward Sherriff Curtis (February 19, 1868 - October 19, 1952) was an American photographer and ethnologist whose work focused on the American West and on Native American people. Sometimes referred to as the "Shadow Catcher", Curtis traveled the United States to document and record the dwindling ways of life of various native tribes through photographs and audio recordings.
How awesome would be to be able to go back and "visit" the past, until we can do that this is the closest we will get. Great job and thank you for sharing.
Great video! The color added, just make the pictures look so recent! The gentlemen at 1:27, for example, looks like he was in the 1960's instead! So how are the photos colorized?Thank you, and keep more videos like this one coming.
I recently looked this up. The video is misleading. E S Curtis was born in 1868 three years after the Civil War. The self portrait featured is actually dated 1889.
I love this, it really does bring the past to life. I just wish the text wasn't cut off. 😎 I am curious as to what software was used, I am guessing Adobe, but I don't have that, too expensive lol?
Great job at colorization _and_ selection of photographs. @ 8:38, for a second I thought I was looking at Willie Nelson. 😄 I'm surprised to see that some men were clean-shaven in that period of time. Most of them weren't.
Photographs were a big deal then. You looked your best and wore your best clothes for them. No doubt these fellows didn't look as well-groomed and clothed day to day.
So much better than the blurred, ghostly black and white images from the cameras of that day. Now these people look like they could be my next door neighbors in 2024!
War is something everyone should fervently wish not happen anywhere, or to anyone. Sadly, there are those in positions of power who feel it is a perfectly acceptable use of that power. Winston Churchill said, “There are worse things than war,” and he was right: slavery and subjugation, among others. But every alternative must be explored before resorting to the horror of war.
A cut and paste: "Abolitionist portrait of the propagandized emancipated enslaved children, Isaac White and Rosina Downs, standing, arm-in-arm. Isaac has brown skin, and wears a shirt jacket, pants, and broad tie. He has his left hand tucked into his shirt jacket. Rosina has fair skin, and wears an off-the-shoulder, calf-length dress, cinched at the waist, and with stripe details on the neckline and skirt. She also wears pantaloons. Freed by Union General Butler in New Orleans, the children toured through the North with other emancipated enslaved people, and Colonel George H. Hanks, to raise funds for the emancipated enslaved schools of Louisiana established by Philip Bacon, Assistant Superintendent of Freedmen." The photographer was M. H. Kimball. The children are: Isaac and Rosa, emancipated slave children, from the free schools of Louisiana. I cannot post links, so hopefully this will start you in the right direction to find more info.
Excellent work. It makes them all so much more relatable. The British veteran at around 4:10. That is the coolest top hat I have ever seen. There is wearing your heart on your sleeve, this guy is wearing his life story on his head. 7:50 - Sickening pic. Looks like they were still using the Irish. In recent times that has been swept under the rug.
In the Civil War era, circa 1860s, that wasn't as big a problem as there was a market for it as fertilizer in surrounding farm areas. There were dudes w/ shovels & wheelbarrows looking to makexa living. As the 19th century drew to an end, 1890s & on, it was much more of a problem, once nitrate fertilizers became standard and farming was less likely to be happening anywhere near city centers
Great clarity. Really brings those times to life. Question: The Nashville Railroad for example....how do you know from a black and white photo that a rail car was not only blue, but two shades of blue?
IMO it's for the OP's self-protection, hah! After reading comments on some other posts, there seem to be A LOT of people who're totally clueless about the history of photography.
What are you using, website and/or company) for the colorization of the photos? I've been colorizing very old family photos. It's amazing to see them come to life in my time. Very good work your are doing. I am not here to dispute claims made by others although accuracy is very important from a historical and personal perspective.
I think he’s just collecting some of these from other sources. I see watermarks on some of them, and the style varies too much. Probably just someone shoveling out other people’s work to get hits on their channel. OP if I’m wrong, tell me!
@@dukeon You are probably right. AI depends on the human coding the software. There are so many websites offering basically the same colorization of older color and black and white photos I though the website being used would be mentioned.
The color is good, but so many of the photos were fuzzy or slightly out of focus. Too bad they couldn't sharpen them up a bit. Still, it is a nice connection.
Great pictures! I wonder, if someone on a colorized picture wears a blue shirt, did he really wear a blue shirt? Or is this something decide by the person who colorized it?
I can see A.I. artifacts in some of the images, so I'm guessing most of them are colorized by A.I.? Brilliant idea actually, must speed up the process astronomically. Some of the images are stunningly well done, while others seem weak, as though there wasn't enough there for the A.I. engine to get a good reading of it. A.I. being what it is however, with repeated use it learns and gets better. If you could get access at museums, of clothing, fabrics, leathers, etc. from the 1800's and take good pictures of them, you could use those to train the A.I. to be more color and texture accurate. Just a suggestion, but it would be nice if you had music from the era/period the photos are from. A.I. could probably provide that too, if you can get sheet music from those times. Just teach it the instrumentation of the time, and it would be able to do a fairly decent representation. This was enjoyable to watch!
I believe that Charles Darwin was badly wounded at Gettysburg while fighting on the Union side, while Charles Dickens spent most of the war as a slave on a Confederate plantation, until he escaped to England via the underground railroad and managed to become a famous author.
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So where are the ladies in the thumbnail? No subscribe from me.
General Sherman was a Freemason?
Clickbait title. Once they're modified by touching them up and adding false color they are no longer "real".
The subtitles are badly done.
Shame!!!
If I were an American, I would cry out of love for my ancestors. An old life that reveals so much to contemporaries.........................
This really is fantastic. It brings life to the past and shows us how it was different, and how it was the same.
Good job on the colorization of these historical photos. My only criticism is that the text descriptions under the photos don't always fit the screen, so a lot of the text descriptions were cut-off.
Yes, really not very convenient, and I was just wondering about this girl, who is it and where is it?
It seems a lot of the photos were stolen and not the work of this channel
This video is AI Generated content so don't bother trying to comment to fix anything- some of the photos are at least real but the info is often mismatched chatgpt search info with lots of errors. This channel is only concerned with cranking out videos fast and easy with little care for quality.
And massive statues of Buddha and Siamese boatmen weren't in the American Civil War.
At 1:26 there is the photo of Edward Sheriff Curtis. He was born in 1868 and is known for his turn-of-the-century photography of American Indians.
Thanks
So the thumbnail was a lie
Oh! My... the twins?
Not twins, two separate girls from different countries. 1 is french 1 is German. Its from after the war ended and they were homeless. Showing beautiful people thrown to the gutters cus of war.
@@zyourzgrandzmaznice imagination my man
I could tell by the picture that it was clickbait. They looked to clear and contemporary looking for the time period. Probably SI generated of course.
Yes a goddamn lie😢
The added colors make the pictures almost life like. Beautiful. Thank you.
You're welcome 😊
The B&W are much preferable to these poorly tinted/colored versions. They look flat and cartoonish.
Who else is fed up from videos teasing with search images which they don't show in the video?
I agree, but this one was obvious. Their clothing was from the Great Depression!
Is this channel with AI speak and all even the OG source of these colorations?
You have the option to report it now.
[...] → Report → Spam or Misleading → Misleading Thumbnail
@@zacharypugh4730Thank you, I just reported it. I don’t have the option „Misleading thumbnail“, but I reported misleading information.
That and crazy music that doesn't fit the video. The Peanuts movie yes... Civil War photos HECK NO !... GEEEZ !....😝
I inherited a five generation collection of the photographic works of my family dating back to the 1850's. I have attempted to hand tint a handful of the many tens of thousands of photos that I have. Until now I have always thought hand tinting was a complete waste of time and accomplished very little esthetically. The first photographer in my family went to France to study under the inventor of the art and then came back circa 1852 to set up a shop in Massachusetts. He was commissioned an officer in the volunteers and took hundreds of battlefield photos that are as yet unpublished. I had always intended to simply leave them in my will to the Smithsonian assuming they would have them. After viewing this video I'm now contemplating having this done with a few hundred of those and turning them into a book though many are too graphic for colorization. Sherman was right, war is hell. The scenes are all hellish in nature, the stuff nightmares are made of. But I have many many historic photos taken before and since that I might do something like this with.
I have never been so impressed by an attempts at colorizing old black and white photos. This is by far the best example of the art I have ever witnessed. I have no idea by what processes this was accomplished but I would say this borders on miraculous in quality. Many of these look like they were taken yesterday with the most advanced digital cameras. I have seen the originals of several of these and blown away by the degree to which images have been cleaned up, clarified and how authentic the colors look. Before this everything I have ever seen colorized looked like they were tinted with water colors done by amateurs.
I have photos as mentioned above taken on battlefields including action and aftermath. Mostly aftermath. I have street scenes and celebrities. My grandfather who was an amateur photographer took hundreds of WWI photos. I have a series of photos documenting the construction of the Cape Cod Canal and the three bridges over it. I have the only photos of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and Herman Melville taken sitting together at dinner at my great, great, great grandmother's boarding house in New Bedford Mass in the 1880's. Clemens came to visit periodically and Melville frequently as they both liked her cooking, especially Melville won once told her that she comes back to New Bedford just for her cooking but prefers New York for everything else. I have photos of Samuel Clemens in drag taken at my great, great, great grandfather's studio. Imagine him wearing a pinafore holding a parasol in one hand and cigar in the other. He was drunk at the time and later asked my great, great, great grandfather to destroy the photos but instead they were preserved. I have photos of the 1918 pandemic taken by my grandmother who was a nurse and helped take care of hundreds of patients in a tent city of the infected that September. There's of a sign reminding people to wear their masks, wash their hands frequently and to social distance. Her diary expressed her frustrations at not being able to convince people of the need to so those things hence all the patients. Another photo shows the dead bodies wrapped in shrouds stacked in the back of wagons like cordwood and yet another photo of work men unloading them into a mass grave. They didn't have modern morgues like today. Some communities burned the bodies but hers thought doing so would cause the smoke to carry the disease spreading it more.
I have photographs of celebrities that went to high school with my Dad in Massachusetts before they were famous.
All of the above are unpublished and all in B&W.
I just wish I could afford to have this done with all of them. It would bring the past back to light in a way that no words can.
Thanks for your generous words. Your words carry emotions and value. Also, you should publish them even in black and white. People like me would love to colorize them besides the fact that original black and white photos are still worthy.
@@chromawhisperer Thank you. Do you do this commercially? Or is this something you only do for your videos?
i hope some day your photos of the 1918 pandemic are posted along with diary entries. Those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it. While it would you put you in the middle of the controversy, or might, or might draw unwanted attention, on the other hand its message would be very powerful and help people understand our changing world. Thank you for sharing your comments and history.
IMO, a photo book along the lines of any of those topics would be very interesting, whether black and white or colourised. The Civil War was among the first to be documented with photographs. More study of the Spanish flu and it's aftermath could benefit us all. Even though the idea of a book of battlefield photos, or row upon row of Spanish flu patients might seem sobering, there was a reason why those pictures were taken. To inform and warn, and educate others. 'The Stuff Nightmares Are Made Of, ' would be an excellent title for such a book.
@@saturnchildwinterborn7897 I find the people looking at the halcyon days of their youth, or the past, don't really understand what day to day life was about. Pictures of 'the bottom of the barrel' of food would be a good one. Life without modern time saving devices. Life without modern medicine. I would have been dead years ago without it. And then there is the whole civil rights movement and the echoes of the past that we are still dealing with. I like the new series which are more historically accurate like 'hell on wheels' about building the transcontinental railroad. I have worked with track hammers and driving stakes at a railroad museum. How people did it for hours on end and the wear and tear on the body. Or black lung disease from being a miner. The series 'Chernobyl' was another one showing the tragedy and cost and how the miners who went in to stop the core from burning its way down all died from radiation poisoning as well as others.... Mostly the good old days - weren't. Times were simpler but far from better.
I like how this video of "1860s USA" shows so many photos from outside the USA.
& The Two Girls featured in this thumbnail & others from this same channel, never appear in the photos shown in video.
@@kathrynsmith3417 Anything for clicks!
Yes, you're right, but I want something specific and point in the right direction.
@@kathrynsmith3417That is because they're AI generated.
Lincolns pics from 1860 to a few years later shows him aging very rapidly. Noticed that this happens to every president.
Looking at these pictures from back then, make you feel like you're in the wrong period of time. Keep it up with more old pictures
The photo of Charles Dickens was by far the best quality in the whole lot. Whoever took it had a very clean camera and clean film. Correct focus and correct exposure. Most digital cameras today couldn’t take a photo that sharp.
True that! Film's limited only by the resolution of its emulsion but digital is trapped by how many pixels it has.
Like the music and the colors. Sometimes I watch those shows where people see color for the first time ,with special glasses, and they always cry.
Awesome work! Very enjoyable looking at the USA and various world photos taken so long ago.
Glad you enjoyed it
I used to think photos shouldn't be colorized, but it certainly makes an impact on how these grey lifeless black & white photos change with color! Suddenly, they look like everyday people. Although, too many uniforms on very young men!
Edward Sherriff Curtis (February 19, 1868 - October 19, 1952) was an American photographer and ethnologist whose work focused on the American West and on Native American people] Sometimes referred to as the "Shadow Catcher", Curtis traveled the United States to document and record the dwindling ways of life of various native tribes through photographs and audio recordings.
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Fantastic! You make History come Alive like never before! Everyone needs to see this, to recognize our common humanity, to grow in empathy and understanding, learning to love each other as the Divine intended.
Clickbait thumbnail 👎👎👎
Yep, but the video has merit.
You must be pretty delusional if you thought women in 1865 looked like that.
@@lukestuningshop8467 he really used AI generated photos of "attractive women in times of Civil War" because "normal" looking people wouldn't generate clicks as much. Kind of disrespectful to our ancestors who fought during that time
All I can say is "free-ma-sons" and old world.
yeah but the video is really cool
Really excellent colorizations. Thank you. The merkins were a bit of a hoot. Godfrey Weitzel was born in Germany, a brilliant student, and perhaps the youngest enrollee in West Point Military Academy at the age of 14 (having lied about his age). A superior engineer, when promoted, he took charge of an all-black Army Corps, putting him on the death list of the Southern Government.
Thanks for compliments. Please like and subscribe. Also, your knowledge of history is great.
The swallow-tail flag behind Custer has 35 stars in the canton. The 35th was added when a star for West Virginia was added July 4, 1863 (West Virginia seceded from Virginia).
Thats the story and they are sticking to it.. Lincoln needed electoral college votes, so forget the U.S. constitution- so Union troops backed a group claiming they where rightfull gov of Virginia allowing the formation of the new state of West Va. A powder mine/ factory in the new West Virginia would employee 2200 men (mostly soldiers) and supply 1/3 of the gun powder for the confederate army/navy for the next two years..No new West Virginians --white/back/free/poor/rich/male/female pointed out to the Feds what was being producted-shipped under tell noses....Seeing they might need more votes Nevada became a state despite not having enfu population to qualify as a state --its still something like 90+% federal land..
Some of the "old town" photographs are fascinating. It would be really interesting to see today's view taken from the same spot.
I appreciate your interest. But that would be beyond from the scope of this channel. However will try to do that for you.
@@chromawhisperer Maybe some of your viewers from those places might be able to help out?
If your interests are in the Civil War and battlefields William Frasanito did several books, Gettysburg, Antietam then the latter campaigns where he determined where old battlefield photos were taken, what was visible and a modern, 1970s1980s, photo from the same camera position.
@@glennrishton5679 Thank you, that sounds really interesting.
New Sub. As an amateur Historian, I really Appreciate the comparison of Original Photography with Colorized Interpretations. That lends greater appreciation of craft and historical significance. Thank You!✔️👍🏽🇺🇸💙
Great collection of colorized history photos. It would be good if you could run some public domain music in the background such as period songs that were being played and sung in both North and South at the time.
I have that collection. It wasn't that entirely different.
These have to be the best colorizations I’ve ever seen. Well done!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks you. Please check other videos as well on our channel. You would love them.
The photos are well chosen, and the colorization is exceptional.
The portrait of Edward Sheriff Curtis at 1:30 makes it personal: He strongly resembles my son-in-law, who happens to be a Civil War reenactor.
Indeed so. The colours make this non existing world disturbingly close and realistic. Good job.
@@JesusMagicPanties Edward Sherriff Curtis (February 19, 1868 - October 19, 1952) was an American photographer and ethnologist whose work focused on the American West and on Native American people. Sometimes referred to as the "Shadow Catcher", Curtis traveled the United States to document and record the dwindling ways of life of various native tribes through photographs and audio recordings.
@@alanoneill3065 Thank you.
Most of the folks captured must have seen the camera both the first and last time in their lives...
Cheers from Poland.
Nice to know ... there's only one little thing; Edward S. Curtis was born only 3 years after the end of the Civil War.
Are those pictures of Curtis?
I could watch these all day.
How awesome would be to be able to go back and "visit" the past, until we can do that this is the closest we will get. Great job and thank you for sharing.
So true!
Thank you from SE England, UK.
Great video! The color added, just make the pictures look so recent! The gentlemen at 1:27, for example, looks like he was in the 1960's instead! So how are the photos colorized?Thank you, and keep more videos like this one coming.
Thanks for that!
@@chromawhisperer you’re welcome!
When jazz started playing, I was expecting Snoopy to come out and dance.
Edward Sheriff Curtis died in the 50s, so he saw the Civil War and both World Wars 😮
I recently looked this up. The video is misleading. E S Curtis was born in 1868 three years after the Civil War. The self portrait featured is actually dated 1889.
@@mrrrufus dang, you're right.
Only because I looked it up! 😊
@@mrrrufus I also looked it up... but wrong 😂
He lived through the Civil War and witnessed both the great Wars
Wow! This is the best example of colorization I've ever seen! Bravo !
I agree
I don’t. It’s abysmal compared to top colorizations out there.
Wonderful photos. Exceptional colorization. (I'm subscribed)
Many thanks!
I love this, it really does bring the past to life. I just wish the text wasn't cut off. 😎 I am curious as to what software was used, I am guessing Adobe, but I don't have that, too expensive lol?
Gimp, and totaly free.
Good job on these! I enjoyed them, thanks for posting. Liked the way the slide show was done too.
Not a fan of the jazzy background music, watching the video with audio muted adds more credence to the photos imo.
You do a beautiful job with these.
Thanks. Please do like and subscribe if you have not done yet.
Wonderful trip through time! Thanks so much, I'm now subscribed (and would recommend using word wrap for the text, which was often off-screen.)
Thanks. I fixed that. Please check latest video on channel.
Super Beautiful Photo!! Thank You!! VB
Some of these pictures look incredibly real! Amazing!
Enchanting. Thank you 🙂
Our pleasure!
Nice voice, articulate, and scholarly. Well done!
Glad you liked it!
Unlike some other commenters, I enjoy the zooming in. It lets me see and focus on the details better.
What a great video!
You are so kind
Great job at colorization _and_ selection of photographs. @ 8:38, for a second I thought I was looking at Willie Nelson. 😄
I'm surprised to see that some men were clean-shaven in that period of time. Most of them weren't.
Photographs were a big deal then. You looked your best and wore your best clothes for them. No doubt these fellows didn't look as well-groomed and clothed day to day.
So much better than the blurred, ghostly black and white images from the cameras of that day. Now these people look like they could be my next door neighbors in 2024!
Great editing work and fantastic music! New light to an old subject.
Thank you kindly!
beautifully rendered images - bravo!
Thank you! Cheers!
Good work my friend 😊
I hope history doesn't repeat the civil war
War is something everyone should fervently wish not happen anywhere, or to anyone. Sadly, there are those in positions of power who feel it is a perfectly acceptable use of that power.
Winston Churchill said, “There are worse things than war,” and he was right: slavery and subjugation, among others.
But every alternative must be explored before resorting to the horror of war.
We've been in one for 3.7 years...courtesy of the Biden administration.
Priceless stuff.
Willie Nelson has to be Pistol Pete's doppleganger 🧐
Except Willie has a completely different view of all of it.
Wonderful stuff
Loved the show. Question: What program/process did you use to colorize?
Superb work - thank you
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Wonderful!
Many thanks!
The photo of the slave children is totally bizarre. Oh for the back story.
A cut and paste: "Abolitionist portrait of the propagandized emancipated enslaved children, Isaac White and Rosina Downs, standing, arm-in-arm. Isaac has brown skin, and wears a shirt jacket, pants, and broad tie. He has his left hand tucked into his shirt jacket. Rosina has fair skin, and wears an off-the-shoulder, calf-length dress, cinched at the waist, and with stripe details on the neckline and skirt. She also wears pantaloons. Freed by Union General Butler in New Orleans, the children toured through the North with other emancipated enslaved people, and Colonel George H. Hanks, to raise funds for the emancipated enslaved schools of Louisiana established by Philip Bacon, Assistant Superintendent of Freedmen."
The photographer was M. H. Kimball. The children are: Isaac and Rosa, emancipated slave children, from the free schools of Louisiana.
I cannot post links, so hopefully this will start you in the right direction to find more info.
This is excellent!! Thanks!
You're very welcome!
The colorization was great on these photos.
Amazing photos!
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I love the photos, but also that jazz. Who is that playing the piano? Thanks!
Please check description. Every video has list of music and a direct link to music.
Too cool. Awesome.
Glad you liked it!
Excellent work. It makes them all so much more relatable. The British veteran at around 4:10. That is the coolest top hat I have ever seen. There is wearing your heart on your sleeve, this guy is wearing his life story on his head.
7:50 - Sickening pic. Looks like they were still using the Irish. In recent times that has been swept under the rug.
That guitar picking for the first 3 minutes is awesome 😎
someone had to clean the horse manure off the streets or the flys would be annoying let alone the smell .
In the Civil War era, circa 1860s, that wasn't as big a problem as there was a market for it as fertilizer in surrounding farm areas. There were dudes w/ shovels & wheelbarrows looking to makexa living. As the 19th century drew to an end, 1890s & on, it was much more of a problem, once nitrate fertilizers became standard and farming was less likely to be happening anywhere near city centers
Excelente las fotografías y el fondo musical, saludos 🇦🇷
What is the musical track used (bluesy)? Thank you!
Great clarity. Really brings those times to life. Question: The Nashville Railroad for example....how do you know from a black and white photo that a rail car was not only blue, but two shades of blue?
Clickbait thumbnail. Shame 👎🏼
Unfortunately Clickbait is common on TH-cam.
It’s the 1860s, what did you expect, pin up girls?
Yeah reading is so 21st century
@@nelsonbergman7706yeah reading the titles is so last century
What’d you think it was gonna be… it’s Civil War photos
Wonderful. Thank you
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FANTASTIC!!!!!
You don’t need to add “colorized” to the photos, we can see they are!
IMO it's for the OP's self-protection, hah!
After reading comments on some other posts, there seem to be A LOT of people who're totally clueless about the history of photography.
I find it hilarious that the vendor of those "intimate wigs" chose that particular cut for his beard.
Great photos! Thank you!
Very clear photos, great colour
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What are you using, website and/or company) for the colorization of the photos? I've been colorizing very old family photos. It's amazing to see them come to life in my time. Very good work your are doing. I am not here to dispute claims made by others although accuracy is very important from a historical and personal perspective.
I think he’s just collecting some of these from other sources. I see watermarks on some of them, and the style varies too much. Probably just someone shoveling out other people’s work to get hits on their channel. OP if I’m wrong, tell me!
@@dukeon You are probably right. AI depends on the human coding the software. There are so many websites offering basically the same colorization of older color and black and white photos I though the website being used would be mentioned.
Nice picture s love it Patricia curry Danville VA ❤❤
1:32 Wrong date. According to Wikipedia the picture is from 1889. They mistakenly have the year he was born instead.
Amazing ❤❤❤❤❤
The color is good, but so many of the photos were fuzzy or slightly out of focus. Too bad they couldn't sharpen them up a bit. Still, it is a nice connection.
Excelentes imagenes 👌🏻👍🏻
the old veteran with the top hat is a Briton, the photo was taken in England. Nothing to do with "U.S. civilian war."
Charleston NC had Romanesque structures with columns! Wow!!
It is Charleston South Carolina.
Amazing.
This is amazing!
Great pictures! I wonder, if someone on a colorized picture wears a blue shirt, did he really wear a blue shirt? Or is this something decide by the person who colorized it?
Color pictures are best!
Music from the actual civil war era would have been more appropriate
Joel McHale could play Gen. Sherman in any upcoming Civil War flick. Must be the hair!
Exceptional work but disappointed that some descriptions were cut off
Hot tip...if you're here to see the two women in the thumbnail, they ain't in the video.
1:44 the Iron works has a huge display hanging on the front of their building, it's crazy how big that thing is.
I can see A.I. artifacts in some of the images, so I'm guessing most of them are colorized by A.I.? Brilliant idea actually, must speed up the process astronomically. Some of the images are stunningly well done, while others seem weak, as though there wasn't enough there for the A.I. engine to get a good reading of it. A.I. being what it is however, with repeated use it learns and gets better. If you could get access at museums, of clothing, fabrics, leathers, etc. from the 1800's and take good pictures of them, you could use those to train the A.I. to be more color and texture accurate.
Just a suggestion, but it would be nice if you had music from the era/period the photos are from. A.I. could probably provide that too, if you can get sheet music from those times. Just teach it the instrumentation of the time, and it would be able to do a fairly decent representation.
This was enjoyable to watch!
8:48 is actually a young (ish) Willie Nelson.
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!🤠😳
That was Awsome
@2:45 - Is the Seller of Intimate Wigs Frank Zappa? LOL
Wait. What🤣🤣🤣🤣
I believe that Charles Darwin was badly wounded at Gettysburg while fighting on the Union side, while Charles Dickens spent most of the war as a slave on a Confederate plantation, until he escaped to England via the underground railroad and managed to become a famous author.
Nice!